Boogeyman (2005)

You won't be disappointed!

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I've heard this film is the remake of the 1980's video nasty, though it has a different, and better, storyline to boot. So if you've let that put you off watching this film stop right now.Here you have the story of Tim, (a hit and miss performance by Barry Watson) who suffers mental stress due to strange events in his childhood, where he believes the demon in the closet took his father. When his mother passes he has to sell the family home, which his uncle is kindly refurbishing.On the whole, this is an okay movie, though at the time of release I hated it. My newfound acceptance could be due to the lack of good horror on offer today; or worst yet, I've grown accustomed to the bad elements of this style of horror film which today's directors use in overabundance - such as the swooping camera's and crescendo sounds to startle not scare.The thing I loved most was the demon, though the director, Stephen Kay, should have left the CGI alone; it was mainly the essence of the demon I loved, thank you Eric Kripke who wrote the story and screenplay. Being able to travel anywhere and to any time through the wardrobe gives the viewer the feeling of distortion and unease; this ability also gives the demon great power. The thought of him also being able to take any shape, for Tim, it was the zombie model he used to have by his bedside, is chilling - what would he look like for you?Though most of the camera work is used to create action I did like the creepy segment where Tim meets his old friend and neighbour Kate (played by Bones, oh sorry, Emily Deschanel). This is a brilliantly filmed piece and flows so smoothly, in the age of shaky-cam I loved it.Also, the appearance of Franny, played really well by Skye McCole Bartusaik, was a great hook in the story... a secondary person who had seen the Boogeyman.There's quite a bit of story weaved into this hour and a half film, enough to keep you engaged, and if you like your horror to be at a break-neck pace then this should be right up your street. This could have been so much better though. There are times when Kay creates a spooky atmosphere, which is a great thing as the Boogeyman is about instilling fear into children. This is the way the film should have progressed instead of going the action and assault route.This is better than quite a few horror films around today so if it's on telly or cable then you could do worse than giving it a viewing.

Anyone expecting genuine horror from the producers of the EVIL DEAD trilogy – that is, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert – will be sorely tested by this stinker of a film which offers neither horror or chills in a mindless ramble through a bunch of horror film clichés, all done on a PG-13 rating. Yep, that's right, don't go expecting any gore whatsoever in this movie, or anything remotely horrific. Instead it's a dark and downright dull film, made by a nobody MTV director who has fun with all his camera shots but who can't direct his way out of a paper bag when all is said and done. The best bits of this movie have a real EVIL DEAD 2 feel to them – no surprise considering the producers – but the scares are less than half as good and the whole film has a "seen it all before" feel.Astonishingly, it takes over an hour before things get going in the movie, if you can call it that. Until then we get a talentless actor wandering through dingy corridors and having doors pop open in front of him; repetitive, yes, scary, no way. The look of the film is polished but it's so derivative and, in the end, empty, that I would prefer a hundred cheesy B-movies a la CROCODILE than sitting through this again.The cast is a bunch of nobodies, aside from Raimi throwing in his favourite actress, Lucy Lawless, playing the boy's mother in yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance. The appearance of the 'boogeyman' at the film's climax is a hilarious example of how NOT to do CGI on a budget; this ghoulish spectre looks like something out of an '80s computer game, and its two dimensional appearance sadly doesn't cut the mustard in the modern world of effects-driven blockbusters. It would have been better to stick with a man in a rubbery suit. On that note, fans intrigued by the premise will no doubt have a lot more fun with the '80s Troma release, MONSTER IN THE CLOSET.

A young man (Barry Watson) tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.Is Emily Deschanel the poor man's Deschanel? In 2005, this might have been the case. Sister Zooey was already huge with films like "Elf". But soon, you know what? Emily would go on to do over 200 episodes as the lead character in "Bones". (Though her name is still probably not as well known, her success is not debatable.) This film seems to have terrible ratings... and yet they made some sequels? It's not actually a bad movie. If anything, maybe people were disappointed that we see so little of this "boogeyman" monster... but that should not be a strike against it. Rather than scare us outright, they worked on building the suspense. And that, to me, is the more challenging approach.

!SPOILERS!I really don't understand why people don't like the Boogeyman movie from 2005. The camera angles (like above) are disapproved off, whilst I think they are gorgeous. They add something different to the movie. In the part he talks with, I believe, his psychiatrist, you can see that the camera has been placed with care. Usually you get simple shots where you just look at them, but with this movie you actually look right over their shoulder and, if they are taller, down or, if they are shorter, up to the person they're talking to.I loved the fast movements the cameras made at giving points. When he first enters the house again after being away for so long, the camera work is just magnificent. I love how they showed that the key actually fit, the fast camera movement that first went to the plastic sheets, then the dripping water and then the door. All of them producing noise that he probably heard and concentrated on, hence it was highlighted this way.I really like it. It makes you look and takes you with it.The part where he comes out of the closet (literally XD), shows that every closet everywhere is connected to other closets all over the world. The boogeyman was with him (hence his girlfriends disappearance) and felt the presence of Katie, which is when he went to the other closet, leaving some trail behind that Tim apparently could use as well. Somehow he has a very strong connection to the boogeyman.I like the little flashes he has to the past. It explains a lot more of what he's feeling and what happened after the boogeyman took his father. I like the flashes of the camera. Highlighting different elements and making it hectic and chaotic. Because that's what fear feels like. Like a chaos inside your body. Nothing can be seen the way it should be, everything happens in flashes. You see the world differently. Fear. It's what the boogeyman portrays. And it makes you uncomfortable. Something that helps even more. The blood on the bath. Oh. That's so good. I love little details like that. Amazing. The ending.. the ending is a bit.. disappointing. I loved the fact that the boogeyman consisted of the things that he was scared of as a kid.But then again, think about it. He might still be in a psychiatric institute and he's learning how to live with his fears. This was the way his mind saw it, how he saw it happen. It would've been better if he had awoken at a psychiatric hospital or something, people happy to see him. It would have given me a better feeling of ending the movie.All and all a good movie that I recommend watching, but of course, every movie has its flaws. It did overuse the camera movements and flashes at some points.